Just the 2 of us.

Just a quick post. Yesterday I spent the day with my baby brother, my 17 year old baby brother! I love him. He is hilarious, annoying, sweet, thoughtful and TALL! It was fun just hanging out with him for the day. Below are a couple of snaps that we got.

We had lunch and he ordered SO much food! Needless to say, he was very full for the rest of the day!

I am wearing a shirt/dress thing that I got about a month ago. I love it BUT the other day I saw an old lady wearing the same dress and have to admit that I thought to myself "AHHHHHH!" but now I am like..hey, whatever! She must be a pretty trendy, little lady!! :)

Will try and post something more interesting soon. Crazy busy at work. Maybe I will post photos of the many different outfits that I have to wear there. Not 100% sure if I want to share it with the world yet though!

Recent photos.

I thought I would post some recent photos. Ever since I have said that I would take some photos of how beautiful it is looking just now in the lovely sunshine..the lovely sunshine disappeared! Of course. So I am still working on some good photos of our beautiful countryside but I did snap these ones on a drive today.

I actually love that is is blurry at the bottom of this photo because it blends all those colours together. I LOVE the photos below because all the colours are all mixed through. I think it's pretty cool. :)

Yes, it is that time already. All my cosy hats are out in full force. This one below is a new one though. I love it. Also in this photo you will see a jacket that my lovely friend gave to me when I left America. I wear it all the time, and think of her everytime I wear it. Love you, boo.

My American mom gave me this jar of mixed herbs when I left America. She had used these many, delicious meals that she cooked for me while I was there so I was already in love with them. But this week I cooke a yummy meal using these herbs with salmon. SO tasty. SO easy.

Looks pretty yummy, right? You should definitely try and get your hands on BRAGG organic sprinkle; 24 herbs and spices seasoning. Yummmm...

I have been doing lots of baking this week. We had a lovely baby shower and the cakes below were made for that occasion. I had a bit of a disaster with the red food colouring though. I was trying to make a deep red, but it turned out BRIGHT PINK. Luckily they still tasty yummy. I had all different colours over my hands from the different colours I used for the icings!

The other icings were very mellow in comparison.

The other night, when I got home from work at 10pm, I had a craving for muffins. So I made some. I have a really simple, delicious recipe for muffins that aren't too sweet and and perfect, really. I got it from my Aunty Trish. I might share it on here soon. Also, check out my lovely case that I got from my American mom. (My American family are too good to me!!) I have so many beautiful cupcake cases now that I want to bake all the time!

And that's all I've got just now. I will try and get some better photos outside this week. Hopefully the weather will cooperate with me.

Cold Feet.

Literally.

It is getting so so cold just now. This morning I started work at 6am so I was up at 5am. Not cool. It was dark and cold outside, and this tells me that I still need to be all cosy in bed. The worst part about it was that I woke up wide awake at 4.30am, thinking that I had slept in. Silly girl. Work was surprisingly good fun. Usually when we start this early we don't really say too much to each other and just get about our work. But today we were all in good form, so tired but enjoying each other's company. I am very thankful that I work with people that make me laugh and smile everyday.

When I got home from work I could hardly keep my eyes open. So I went to bed for a wee nap. (If I start work this early then I always feel that I can justify going back to bed for a bit!) But this was not happening today. I set my alarm for an hour and a half, I don't like to sleep for too long. So basically I lay in bed for nearly 2 hours, freezing and didn't sleep a wink. I got out of bed feeling horrible, head ache and even more tired. Great. But this was fine. I did a few things round the house. I found out that we would be starting work at 7pm tonight so I thought I could squuueeze in a wee nap, again! This time my feet were cold, actually freezing. So this didn't work either. This time I felt like crying. I was so tired and still had another long shift ahead of me. But whatever. My nap was just not meant to be right now.

It is now 12:37am and what am I doing? On here NOT SLEEPING! I am off tomorrow so I'm not really too worried about it. I am also trying to speak with my dear friend in California, on Skype. Her son is in Hospital and has been for the past 2 weeks. Please say a little prayer for her, and her little boy and family. I wish that I was over there now to be with them.

I am struggling to keep my little eyes open. Bed time I think. :)

Nothing better than a wet bed?

Today went too quickly. It was my day off so I slept in, til 8:30am. This felt like houuuuurs for me. I read for a little bit then my mum and I got ready to hit up Perth. We had a slow start. We did it a bit differently today. Instead of heading down the High Street we looked in all the small, cute shops and found lots of little treasures. Christmas presents, baby shower presents (she's having a boy btw!) cards, ribbon....lovely things! It was a successful day.

I will fill in more tomorrow. But right now I am tucked up in bed, with no smile on my face. I had a great plan of filling my hot water bottle and putting it in my bed so it would be lovely and cosy when I got in it. Fail. There was a cheeky, wee hole in my hot water bottle and so instead of a cosy bed, I had a wet bed. And we all know that there is nothing better than a wet bed to climb into at night? So I am not very impressed right now. I am sure I will get over it. Probably when my alarm is going off at 6:00am tomorrow!!

Snap Happy.

It seriously looks so beautiful just now! I went for a drive today and the sun was shining and the leaves are golden. Pretty breathtaking. Tomorrow I am going to try and get out to take some photos before it all fades away. Last year I remember thinking how wonderful this season is and loved walking to work all wrapped up and drinking in the Autumn colours. Then we had a crazy, wild, windy couple of days and there were no shining golds anymore. The worst part was I had been telling myself to take photos for weeks and I missed it. So I don't want to miss it again this year.

A lovely girl I work with is expecting a baby. It was completely a shock. Somehow there are only 3 weeks to go, so we are having a baby shower on Wednesday. It should be a fun day of friends, baking, games and laughs. I will take photos. Tomorrow I will be baking away in the kitchen. Say a little prayer for Jenny and her wee baby boy who will be with us soon!

Hopefully I will have all sorts of photos for you next time I blog. :)

Making memories.

At the start of this week my sister and I took at couple of days off to spend some time together, but also to spend time with our dear Granny. We are Gray's, so of course the day did not go as we plan. We planned to leave at 8:30am, it was probably 9:30am before we actually left. This is something that happened on EVERY trip that we took when we were younger. We had a slight detour to pick up a spare tyre, this turned into another detour as we had to go to Perth to get it fitted onto the wheel. This was actually pretty entertaining as it took 5 men to put this tyre onto the wheel. Now I am not going to pretend that I know anything about putting a tyre onto a wheel but after they told my sister and I that we would probably want to get out of the car and wait in reception because the "bang" might scare us, I was a bit scared. So we went to wait into reception and watched them beat up our little tyre. We had no clue what they were doing but we were more worried about the fire that was coming out of the tyre! After a little bit one of the 5 guys came to explain to us what they were doing.

After all of this we finally got on the road to Glasgow, at 11:15am. It was a really beautiful day, the sun was shining. We then got a call from Dad saying that he was on the same road as us and that he wanted to, and I quote, look at the tyre. We didn't really get this part. Why would anyone want to look at a tyre? To me, every tyre looks the same. But I am glad that someone appreciates the fine art of...tyres. After we let Dad get his tyre fix for the day we were on the road again.

We had lunch with Granny, which was lovely. It is so nice to spend time with her. I don't do it enough and she just loves seeing us. I have a lot of wonderful memories of summers spent with her in her house. I love to look through old photos with her everytime I go there. It is nice to laugh at old photos of young parents, and young grandparents!

Then Lucy and I hit the shops. It was lovely to go shopping with my sister with no real agenda other than to look around the shops and see what bargains we could find. We couldn't actually remember the last time we went shopping together. The weather was lovely for shopping, sun shining with a little breeze. We didn't last very long though, only 4 hours. Our last 20 mins were actually hilarious. Lucy needed a pair of jeans, so off we went on a mission. We were very tired and not really prepared properly for our mission. But, we did leave with a pair of jeans!!

After this we were done. We went back to our Granny's with our purchases, sore feet, yawns and laughs. She had a lovely meal prepared for us and was also planning the night's activities. The activity we wanted to do most was: NOTHING! We were pooped. I don't think she quite believed us because before we knew it our cousin was over for the evening. Luckily she was just as exhausted as us and we just chatted then chilled out in front of a movie.

Have you ever seen An Officer and a Gentleman? Please tell me that you have. This was the first time that I have seen it. When I leave for work now I go with the hope that an officer will come and sweep me off my feet. Well, not really but you get it. If you haven't watched, you have to. I am a hopeless romantic.

You know when you are so tired that you get hysterical? Well that was were the 3 of us were at at 11pm on Monday night; my cousin, sister and I. We had a lot of fun together.

We aslo watched Eat, Love, Pray. I am kind of mixed about this. It was fun, but there was lots of stuff that I didn't really agree with. There was a really funny scene with Julia Roberts and her friend trying to get into a pair of jeans which was very similar to a real life scene with my sister trying to get into jeans the day before! It was fun to see a movie with my sister though and we did enjoy it. It made me want to go to India and Italy!

Well, that was our fun trip. We bought the same dress (when we were younger our mum used to dress my sister and I in matching outfits. I think she thought we were twins. I am pretty sure she would know that we were born 20 months apart though? I'll have to ask her about that.)
My sister took a cute photo of the two of us but I don't have a copy of it just now. I will post in when I get it. My brother, sister and myself are all going off in different directions, to different countries even , and this makes my Granny very sad. I was really challenged this week to spend more time with her and pick up the phone more often. She misses us. I miss her.

I can't wait for my sister and I to go on another trip, and maybe next time we can drag our baby brother with us!

Coming soon...

I have a few things that I have to blog about, so when I find the time you will see get to read what is on my heart.

I will also be sharing a few little treasures that I have found over the past few months. But for now, I better get ready for work!

"This is the day the LORD has made;

let us rejoice and be glad in it." Psalm 118:24